Laura Bush --- A Fashion Disaster

One can only assume that her polyester pant suits and clogs/sandals come to her by way of the bargain rack at Dress Barn and Lane Bryant.

Has anyone ever bothered to tell her that there's more to fashion than ILL FITTING pastel and turquoise seersucker pantsuits?

And not that there's anything WRONG with off-the-rack clothes... you'd just imagine that as long as she's occupying the White House she would try to do a better job and try to look a little more impressive.

Note the way the top is straining at the buttons.

The Golden Girls from the Fifth Ring of Hell!

Gravity beat the crap out of this bunch!

gravity beats the hell outta all of us before it is over..... :evilgrin: trust me........LOL.....jenn

Sheesh.

*sigh*

Now that's a real first lady. Pickles wears turquoise pantsuits that don't fit right! Gahhh :D

n/t

She needs those gay guys on TV to help her out

but even they couldn't get rid od that bovine look on her face

Pickles sure looks like she stepped off the set of Pink Flamingos!

You should be ashamed of yourselves, picking on a woman who is so unfortunate to be married to that creep, GWB. I think it is sad when we pick on the families of political figures. If Laura were coming out and saying things publicly regarding politics, she would be fair game. But the poor thing doesn't say much, doesn't do much, and shouldn't be the focus of our ire.
Now, her mother-in-law, that is another matter altogether. That Beeyatch wouldn't know a decent getup if it flew off a truck and landed on her back.
I really think the dowager queen buys her clothes at Wal-Mart. And I think she got her political attitudes there, too.

she knows well that shrub rose to power on inherited blood money from Auschitz....that shrub's policies have KILLED thousands, and deprived people of even a minimally decent life...

yet, she does nothing...she simply benefits from this criminal enterprise, BFEE....there is NO EXCUSE for laura to watch the KILLING from her prime perch at the White House...and say nothing...

laura is very much a part of the destruction of America....

BTW....she should hire someone to help her with her clothes, and sue the surgeon who did that failed eye lift...laura looks and acts like trailer trash from tex-ass, destroying everything good in America...

of gouging my eyes out of my head with rusty spoons.

Thanks CW...I'll never eat again!

I think I'll rip off my testicles for good measure as well; can't be too careful.

:scared:

Damn, is she that desperate?

I hear that alcoholics and cokeheads have more than their share of trouble getting it on.

repressed by the Taliban (very valid cause) - and then dropped it, or never applied it anywhere else (because there are a heck of a lot of women living under extreme repression, AND in post Taliban Afghanistan many women are living under very similar circumstances - the old police of public vice and virture are back for example...)

She took an active and willing role (to sell to the nation). And then never said another word? The press touted her as the "conscience" of the White House. She was the nurturing mother to us all making us feel better... (blah, blah, blah). And thus took an active role in the MadisonAvenue MarketandManipulate WhiteHouse.

back to baking cookies in short order.

didn't george mention that on one of their crawford visits with a visiting dignitary? That was her role? :eyes:

Taliban was because the PR of the white house told Bush that it would look good. So he told "The Little Women" to do it!

if it had been sincere or not staged - she would still be speaking out - ala "there is still work to be done..." But nothing. nada.

She chose to play the role - and thus made herself part of the public image. (and thus fair game for criticism - granted her clothes is a bit petty - but funny nonetheless - who clothes this woman?)

...that she's a fundraiser. Normally I would take up the cry of "Poor Laura," but there are too many examples of her taking exactly the role that supposedly isn't hers.

For starters, there's the story that she's a librarian and teacher and Very Devoted to Education. However, she got out of teaching and librarianship upon her marriage and set off to...campaign with her husrband (who lost that election, by the way). Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but she never went back to her former career.

And if she's so influential, why won't Bush recommend the appropriate level of funding for education, including for special needs children? What about this attempt to alter Head Start? What about the Bush administration's proposed cuts to libraries and elimination of funding for Reading Is Fundamental?

Either Laura Bush has no influence on her husband, policy-wise, or she's a less benign influence than we've been led to believe.

She's very much a fundraiser for her husband. I'm hearing that she's off raising sums for the Chimpified One.

At any rate, the conflict between image and reality fits in very well with the Bush White House. GWB struts around in a flight suit, but you can bet he didn't go to Vietnam. John McCain did, and Bush's campaign against him was vicious. Max Cleland did, and an even more vicious campaign helped him lose his Senate seat.

But I digress.

Anyway, Laura Bush is a cipher, personality-wise, but she's hardly the apolitical innocent everyone has been lead to believe.

he'd give her a wardrobe budget; and as for being silent on opolitics, that invites the criticism of complicity.

... from the corporate strip mall shopping experience to being a victim of the on-going coup to just say 'yes' to meds in order to cope, etc. ....

... that doesn't mean she has style, taste, grace, etc. ... I don't think she does ... some people got it, and some people don't ... and, people who don't, don't generally make it to the level of White House Amway rep ... ergo, we've got big trouble ...

to me it seems very shallow to be concerned with what kind of clothes a person wears. as long as they don't look dirty or like a crazy person who really cares. this is the same as bashing hillary over her pantsuits. who cares? it is just clothes. sheesh.

... I expect more from her considering her position.

Granted she doesn't DESERVE to be in her position, but you'd think that SOMEONE on her staff would be honest enough to let her know that ordering clothes from catalogs is not necessary anymore.

Retro is fine... but at least make sure your clothes STILL FIT before you dig them out of mothballs and try to parade around in them while pretending that you're setting new fashion trends.

-- Allen

it's not as though George wears clothes that are fitting of the office. His jackets are bland bland bland, poorly tailored, with shoulders and sleaves 3 sizes too big. For every too small outfit she wears, he wears at least 3 that are too big. The easiest way to beat the Bushes is to hire a real fashion consultant that knows what they're doing.

like a disproportioned caricature.

A tiny little head on over-sized shoulders? Combine that with his stiff-armed waddling gait that makes him appear as though he's got a corncob shoved up his ass.

They are quite the pair, aren't they?

-- Allen

I've been dealing with used car salesmen's wives quite a bit lately; all of the ones I've encountered dress attractively and professionally as befits someone who works in an office.

Laura Bush dresses like my mom, lover of polyester pantsuits for at least 40 years. My mom was a librarian too. (She's now a retired librarian doin' the Great Grandmother thing and feeling pretty damn good about herself.)

But in consideration of the slicked-down, over-cologned "Leisure Suit Larry" stereotype that many folks associate with used car salesman... it only seems natural and logical to extend that tactless image to their wives as well.

Intrinsically, there's nothing "wrong" with Laura's outfits... IF (a big fat "IF") she worked in an office, or if she worked retail, or as a librarian...

But she doesn't. She's supposed to be acting as though she's the first lady of the United States. Clearly nobody in her inner circle cares or has the fortitude to bluntly tell her that she TRULY needs to make friends with someone like Oscar De La Renta.

-- Allen

Get off it, everybody. It's shallow as hell to go on and on about what a person is wearing. Stop sucking up and internalizing all the advertising crap that is spewed at you every day.

If your clothes are clean and allow you to go about your daily business, then they have served their purpose. The Dalai Lama owns one or two patched robes, and he manages to be a pretty decent and influential guy. Will you go on and on about how badly dressed he is?

Sorry, dear.

I believe I would agree with you 100% if someone were poking fun at and ridiculing the clothes of the manager at your local K-Mart.

Your comparison to Dali Lama doesn't work for me because indeed HE IS dressing appropriately. (Couldn't you just see him in a Liberace cape? No? Me neither.)

Could you see Laura wearing a feed sack? As long as it's clean... what difference does it make? Eh?

Seriously... notwithstanding the tragic circumstances that put her in her current position, she has the responsibility to represent our country in a manner that's more appropriate.

We are only saying OUT LOUD what the rest of the world is thinking quitely to themselves. Don't be afraid to admit that she's challenged.

It's such an embarrassment.

Remember Jackie Kennedy? Remember Nancy Reagan? --- Hell's bells... even Mamie was a fashion-plate compared to this train wreck.

She needs an intervention... not excuses. ;-)

== Allen

what Hillary was wearing (those pantsuits!), what Chelsea looked like (a dog!), ad nauseam. It was sickening then, and it's sickening here and now. I'd be the last to be an 'apologist' for Laura Bush, since I know absolutely nothing about her and truly couldn't care less about her, one way or the other. My focus is on the pettiness, the high-school-girls-tittering-in-the-bathroom nature of this sort of discussion.

Laura Bush must have been offered plenty of sartorial help over the years, and has obviously rejected it all. So what???

Cut that out!

Dear Lord, now I won't be able to sleep for weeks!

Shit, I'm afraid to go further in this thread!

:spank:

(so-called) "criticism" of Hillary.

The difference here is that WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS TRUE TRUE TRUE!!!

She's a frump and an embarrassment.

Does she own ANYTHING AT ALL that has a pattern printed ON it or woven INTO it??

Solids. Solids. Solids. Pastel. Pastel. Pastel. Too Small. Ill Fitting. Out of date.

Oh my god. Will it ever end!?!

-- Allen

Ellie Mae Clampett, and Daisey Duke!

Those are about the only two that would embellish the humble feed sack. :loveya:

I think that his robes and other garb are pretty cool-looking - I know that I would certainly choose them over a business suit, any day of the week.

I'm first in line to agree that clothes don't make the (wo)man - for the record, today I'm wearing a bathing suit and a Bruce Lee T-shirt. But we are talking about some fairly heinous visual atrocities being perpetrated by the unFirst lady, whose role in the current junta does, indeed, appear to be symbolic. She's been relegated to an accessory - a big departure from what we had eight years of - and for whatever reason (love, weakness, whatever) she's not obviously balked at the role. So could they at least please get the colors down and maybe the fit right, and maybe try out some of her predecessor's duds?

Pickles wears stuff that even I would characterize as a tad dowdy, and I've got as much fashion sense as a man wearing a Bruce Lee T-shirt might be expected to possess....and I really think she could look quite the foxy mamacita if outfitted a little differently.

Not that this is keeping me up at nights. Much.

she represents us on the world scene and she looks like hell in her to small clothes and her drugged out look

It is true that BARBARA is worse, much worse

but why judge someone in the public eye by the lowest common denominator. People in Lauras position owe the reat of us a certain amount of DIGNITY

are they going off message with designer clothing. They will do absolutely nothing that will arouse any envy. I think her clothing looks like the the clothing in the Blair ads in Parade magazine right down to the flip flops but I think that they have a just plain folks just like you and me image and she chooses her clothing to fit that role. * suits are custom made and cost thousands of dollars but there is rarely if ever anything reported about his clothing. As far as her not being fair game never forget that she is a driving force behind whatever he does in an emotional sense. Toxic energy seeks toxic energy. She read him the riot act in 2000 when he was campaigning and went off message and made a mistake. People tend to marry people that they are "familar" with on some level and the people he is familar with are not exactly the Waltons.

poor fashion sense.

That look resonates with many people.

IT's that connection with the "folksy." Even though it is a total fraud.

fashion disaster thread. dreadful color, dreadful style...yet another fashion felony :eyes:

Looks more like crisp linen.

How do you want a 45-50 year old woman - with a library sciences degree - to dress? Like Lucy Coe in General Hospital?

I am 62, and I wouldn't be caught dead in that ugly get up !!!!

That would be a start.

-- Allen

Ruth, okay. Lucci? You should see how much she gets dissed on the ABC soaps usenet group, for not dressing her age.

she's really not a bad-looking woman, but her choice in colors and styles just aren't becoming. i'd dress her in more classic styles and darker colors, for a more elegant look.

:shrug: queer eye for the straight woman? :7

and, yes, she wears things that don't exactly flatter her (or anyone), but it's the colors that are most violently 'off.' Half the time she looks like guacamole and the rest of the time she looks like....I don't know....Andy Warhol's nightmare, or something.

I didn't even know that the institutional colors that used to be standard in hospitals and military installations, as well as in some of the more austere Federal facilities, were ever intended for use on clothing. It's been a revelation.

For the most part - the lavendar in the pic CatWoman posted looked nice on her, though.

:-)

Not that, as a male, I even know what lavendar is, I hasten to add.

*spit* *scratch* *flatulation* *where's the remote?*

but the fit is horrible.

I think her left fit is looking particularly perky in that photo. :P

you must acquit!!!

:D

But.....


If it's too big a breast
You must arrest

but would have opted for a zipper in the front instead of those buttons. and she should have something around her neck. yep...classic styles and colors, with interesting jewelry would be best for a woman like her, who really isn't into dressing.
that's how i do it :D

like a feather boa?


(bet you thought I was going for 'a rope') gottcha!

:evilgrin:

Hi, Ras :hi:

:*

or a Cowbell!

:hi: sweetie

LMAO...laura? down with the homeys? that will keep me laughing all day...thanks! :hi:

And not looking bad, considering that she has little concern with clothes and has put up with that man all these years. GWB is a lot of wear and tear on a woman.

be pretty if she had not gotten the bad facelift and if she dressed nicer. I think there's too many woman of her age and older that get facelifts and look worse for it instead of better. There are a lot of beautiful naturally aged woman out there.

Why do many wives of Greedy Old Prikkks dress like Mary Kay/Amway pimps? In fact, I have seen pimps in Snoop Dog videos in the same colors. Whoodathunkit? The
wives of Greedy Old Prikkks and Hall of Fame Players, Pimps and Hustlers featuring the same colors in their closets.

It's not the fiftys for khrist sakes. :puke:

It's not the seventies anymore, either.

I hate being catty about people who make a lack of fashion a choice. It's a right we have as private citizens.

But she's a public figure and in a position such as hers the American public has expectations that she will, at the very least, put her best foot forward. She doesn't.

She needs to call those good folks at Nordstroms and have them retailor her pant suits as a minimum. She could do worse than to cultivate a relationship with an American designer, or even an American pret a porter house.

Didja see my makeover? Huh? Huh? Pretty impressive, n'est ce pas?

had a makeover?

Why was I not notified?

I was afraid that you'd demand that I do something rash, like get my hair cut.

I'm sorry. I was weak.

But, you know, fishnet stockings are not all that uncomfortable, once you get used to them....

as a militant feminist lesbian.

I'm going to take NSMA on again, head-on, for the MILF title.

But mainly I just want to roll around in the mud with her again..... :D

Her choice of colors is completely wrong & nothing she wears fits right. She looks like she shops at Goodwill.

She's not an unattractive woman, she just really needs help!

I guess the twins don't try to dress her? My friend's 11-year-old daughter is the fashion police at her house!

Wait--never mind.

Hey, I think she can be sorta sexy, in a depressingly potentially-evil-tinged way....

No wonder Georgie's so afraid of horses.

In fact, it's conceivable that I've caused the entirety of DU to implode.

Oops.

That's not your makeover. That's Pickles' makeover.

:D

Now THAT's style, doncha think?

And, no, that's not me on the ground in the bottom photo. :P

what sort of sites you must frequent to have found these particular gifs...?

Not that there's anything wrong with it of course.

Well, some of it's a bit..... *cringe*

But, like all men and women of true vision, I'll go wherever I need to if that's what it takes to get to the truth.

Yes, this is my quest, to follow that star - no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question of pause. To be willing to march into Hell for the heavenly cause.

Um....yeah....

I thought that kind of "joyless sex" was a libral thing!

*whiiiiinnnnnnney* :o

geddy Up!

What a wild ride.:D

You thought I was a bucking bronco? Um, well, yeah - that was a little bit of a typo. :o

Hey! Take it easy with that crop!

lets trade places and you can use the crop!

*thwack*

Ha......this is dangerous stuff :D

The first lady could learn a thing or two from my way of thinking and doing! :evilgrin:

so what do we expect? Babs was the worst dressed first lady ever. Those knee length skirts were bad for Babs, as they are bad for Laura. Laura has no sense of color - and far often she's jammed into something that doesn't fit right.

However, my biggest complaint with her concerns her taste in formal wear. We should not have a fashion disaster at state dinners. Remember that maudeawful gold number with the turquoise sash?

...the almond kind.
she's got some cleavage...why cover it up some much? must be rw thing :7

Free the Cleavage Two!!

Mmmm....cleavage....

That looks like a remade curtain!

"Oh I just saw it in the window and HAD to have it!"

Best Carol Burnett show ever!!

what a hottie!

-- Allen

No wonder the Bushes never have state dinners. They just invite people to the pig farm.

...the one with the great big bow right on the belly. Not the gold one, but an earlier one.

It's true. Mother in law has loaned Laura her designer Scaasi. And she also gets some things (like the inaugural gown) from a Texas designer.

She's just frumpy.

And I wonder why we have never seen her arms. Never. Not even when she's on the pig farm.

She's denied the Constitutional right to bare arms because she's got a tattoo of Bon Jovi on her left arm and a Chiense dragon and naked lady on her right. Oh, I love Texas women.... :loveya:

Oh The HUMANITY OF IT ALL!!

sweet charlotte :D

can't find a frontal pic -- which is probably a blessing.

that dress is just plain tacky.

Pink on top, red on the bottom. :wtf:

Oh
My
God

Quite possibly the most hideous outfit I've ever seen. I've seen better dressed hookers.

Laura... the clown school called... they want the costume back.

-- Allen

is this designer of hers colorblind?

She just should have gone with the dress as either all magenta (might be striking with black accessories,) or all red. It would have been quite nice in black.

I think she looks fine in the periwinkle dress above.

Whomever is giving her fashion advice must not like her. If she's confused about formal attire, perhaps she should do what women have done since time immemorial: One can't go wrong with a little black dress, pearls, black hose and stiletto heels. Ever.

Carson of "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" would have an aneurism if he saw the magenta/red dress, though.

Julie

that is truly wretched, and it almost looks as if she's wearing it backward, with that large bow and train effect in the front. Contrast it to how chic Senora Fox looks. Laura is a fashion train wreck.

tonight. That dress should have been declared a national disaster.

:scared:

Good Lord! :D

I remember that thing she wore, in Russia I think. It was a coat or something but it looked like a balooning trash bag.

I can't stand the woman and personally I don't care that she has the fashion sense on a gnat but she represents the US at these events and should look a little classy.

That was the most hideous dress I've ever seen. And they're with the Polish Prime Minister and his wife, who is wearing the most elegant black dress

a queer eye for the straight girl show. Real bad. :puke:

... and sense of impeccable fashion.

-- Allen

Not that she would ever wear well designed clothes, but the raw materials have potential.

Capitalizing on her coloration and proportions is not an impossible task.

Merely one that might never see the light of day..

Crimes of Fashion.

But there's another one where the bow is dropped about four inches from the waist, and thus right over her belly. I think it might have been maroon or plum colored.

Of course the classic is the suit she met when she went to meet First Lady Hillary for tea in the White House. Gad, it was turquoise plaid. Gruesome!

Half of DU will be seeking therapy or at least a strong drink to try and remove the images of this thread from their minds....

The horror......the horror.......the horror...